“The use of reason and that of an erect penis are mutually exclusive.”
“Well that’s too hard. I will continue on with what we got.” When we say of a biblical command, “I don’t THINK that will work,” what we have done is elevate our reason above God’s Word.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. For that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief, hypnopaedia.”
Source: Brave New World
“Being jobless is not a reason to end a life. In my opinion, no reason is worth to end your life.”
Source: VIKAS 2.7: Rebooting Development
“There is a reason why they call it a pea brain when we get angry.”
Source: Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions
“Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge only comes from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.”
Source: World Without End
“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”
Source: The Laughing Corpse
“They sharpen themselves on each other; each by turn is blade and whetstone; when talk falls to faith and reason they argue readily, startling themselves by growing swiftly bad-tempered ('You don't understand!' 'How can I understand when you do not even make attempts at speaking sense?').”
Source: The Essex Serpent
“Average man is arrogant, because he is ever impressed by reason and always bows his head to it. Reason makes us believe that our challenges in life are to be avoided at all costs. This is to be a coward who does not have the self-respect needed in order to honour the marvellous gift of life.”
Source: Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake ... We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books. Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and -- since there is no other metaphor -- also the soul.”
Source: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything